I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere (film)

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I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
Directed byArnaud Viard
Written byArnaud Viard in collaboration with Thomas Lilti, Emmanuel Courcol & Vincent Dietschy.
Produced byMarc-Benoît Créancier
Starring
CinematographyEmmanuel Soyer
Edited byVéronique Bruque
Music by Clément Ducol
Production
companies
  • Easy Tiger
  • France 2 Cinéma
Distributed by
  • Orange studio (International)
  • UGC Distribution (France)
Release date
Languages
  • French
  • English
Budget$4.2 million [1]
Box office$3.4 million [2]

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere (French : Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part) is a French film directed by Arnaud Viard released in 2019 [3] with an adapted screenplay from Anna Gavalda's homonymous collection of twelve short stories. [4] [5] [6] [7]

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Plot

Aurore celebrates her 70th birthday surrounded by her friends and four grown children: the eldest Jean-Pierre is the father of a family and wine representative, Juliette is a French teacher and dreams of career as a writer, Margaux is a freelance photographer, and Mathieu is single at 30 years old. Since the death of their father, Jean-Pierre naturally assumes the paternalistic and benevolent role with his siblings. One day, he is contacted by his old friend Héléna, a fashionable theater actress, who tells him terrible news. [8]

Cast

Production

Most of the filming took place in Fixin, in Côte-d'Or. Part of the shooting took place from September 3 to 7, 2018 in Dijon. [9] [10]

Box office

The film was first released in France on January 22, 2020, in 367 theaters and sold 27,040 tickets on opening day. [11] The first week ends with 212,027 tickets sold. [12] The second weekend saw attendance drop by 57.07% despite 22 additional theaters. [13] The film is entering its seventh week passed the bar of 450,000 tickets sold. [14]

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